CFP: Robin Hyde's Work and Life (2/28/05; collection)

full name / name of organization:

Mary Paul

contact email:

m.paul@massey.ac.nz

Call for Submissions

Essays are sought for an anthology on any aspect of the work and/or life ofNew Zealand writer Robin Hyde aka Iris Wilkinson(1906-1939) whose workspans poetry, journalism (including reportage from the Sino Japanese war),travel writing, novels, short stories and autobiographical writings. Hyde'searly death meant that she was effectively left out the nationalistliterary canon but over the last twenty years there have been dissertationsand studies which recuperate her in a variety of ways.In additionunpublished manuscripts have been published and consulted resulting in arecent collected poems (Young Knowledge, Michele Leggott,Auckland:AUP,2003)and a biography wriiten by her son (The Book of Iris, DerekChallis,Auckland: AUP, 2002). No book length study of Hyde's work existsand this collection aims to bring together recent and emerging commentaryand reaction to that work.

Comparative studies with other feminist modernists, post-colonial writers,women in journalism, or studies that look at writing about grief, loss of achild, single motherhood in the 1930s or self-medication and therapeuticautobiography are all welcomed as are studies of her poetry, novels, warjournalism, internationalism and nationalism, alterity, and connectionsbetween visual and verbal representation; Hyde'srelationship to social and cultural movements and theories, including butnot limited to feminism, and post-colonialtheory.

Proposals are particualrly welcome from those who have recently completeddissertations on Robin Hyde's work, those interested in the materialhistory of the 1930s or those responding to her work in other than anacademic genre.

Preliminary inquiries, comments, and suggestions for contributors are alsowelcome.Deadline for proposals/abstracts is February 28th 2005. Send 500-wordproposals and bioto Mary Paul, English Programme, School of Social and Cultural Stdies,Massey University at Albany . Email submissions welcome:m.paul_at_massey.ac.nz